Mine is still a W I P, but Frostys vert has been killin it everywhere.

Well boys - I bid farewell to the Avalanche today. Its gone! I pick up the new (used) ride later tonight.....

Don't worry notallthere.....as I promised, I kept the true fire engine cover for wall art purposes.

Bought this for the Accord. Should get it on either Friday or Saturday. :3

real or for show?

For show, but it's stamped on actual European plate templates with the same font used. I picked a Portuguese one, since I'm mostly Portuguese.

nice.

Built brackets for the C20 to convert to electric fans.

Plugs, wires, cap, for the Fiero. Oil change on the Fiero along with a new torsion mount for the motor from the Fiero Store.

Got my euro plate today! =]

I like it! Will that be it's permanent location?

I like it! Will that be it's permanent location?

It didn't come with instructions....

I like it! Will that be it's permanent location?

Yep. =]

For shows, I may toss it on my front plate bracket.

I had the wonderful opportunity to replace the power window regulator in the Envoy today. The window rolled most of the way down and would not come back up or go all the way down. I took the door apart rather quickly and found the the wire cable on the regulator had started to shred and jammed itself in two places. I will post pictures of it in the morning - I've too damn beat tonight to even bother. I was lucky to find an Advanced Auto that (A) was open on the 4th of July at all, ( still open when I called them at 4:00 pm on the 4th of July, and © had the replacement regulator I needed in stock. $130 later I have a working window again! Voila!

I just spent part of Saturday, Sunday, and last night giving the Envoy a tune-up. It consisted "simply" of a new air cleaner, spark plugs, and plug wires. The truck has 99,200 miles on it, so its due for all of the 100k maintenance. I purchased a new K&N reusable air cleaner, 8 new AC Rapidfire 6 platinum spark plugs and a set of Bosch plug wires. The kid actually wanted to help me work on the car, so I let him.

The air cleaner was the easiest thing to do. We were both stunned at the old air filter. I honestly question when it was last replaced. It felt like it was 2 pounds heavier with the amount of dirt literally packed into it. The thing that most amazed me was the dirt ladden moth clinging to the outside of the damn thing. It would not fall off! We had to wipe a whole bunch of dirt off the bottom of the air cleaner housing too before we set the new filter in.

The throttle body was pretty carboned up too. I removed the throttle body and cleaned it thoroughly with throttle body/carb cleaner on both sides of the butterfly blade. It throw some error voltage too high/too low codes when I first restarted the truck. I cleared them and that was the end of that.

The worst part was changing the plugs and plug wires. The passenger side of a 2008 Envoy Denali with a 5.3L V8 requires you to jack up the passenger side of the vehicle, put it on jack stands and remove the front tire. This gains you access to the #4, 6, and 8 cylinder spark plugs. Spark plug #2 is conveniently buried behind the shock mount tower with barely any room for 2 fingers, let alone a wrench or pair of pliers to get the boot or plug off.

It took over 2 hours of the kid and I trying to pry the boot off from the bottom and the top before we had any success. We destroyed the old plug wire in the process. With the use of a universal joint and several long extensions I was able to get the plug out and the new one in. Getting the new plug boot on was almost as challenging as getting the old one off since you had to make sure it was secure and tight fitting. We were eventually successful!! However, it was getting late on Saturday night so we quit there.

Sunday afternoon we resumed our work and did the driver's side. Its much easier to get to all of the plugs but its still not as easy as you'd like it to be. The #1 cylinder was the most difficult to change because there is a engine temp sensor mounted just above the exhaust manifold there as well as a bracket that is bolted to the alternator bracket that holds several thick electrical bundles going to the engine bay fuse panel. Remove the bolt holding the bracket and remove the electrical connection to the sensor and now you have a shot at getting to the plug. Changing this side took less than half the time we spent on the passenger side.

We took the truck for a quick test drive and I plugged in my ACTRON OBDII diagnostic reader into the OBDII port. The engine didn't feel quite right. Under hard accelerator, I threw a P0302 code. Cylinder #2 misfire. Dang it !!!!!

I did some research on internet on what could cause a P0302, bad spark plug, bad wire, bad coil, bad fuel injector, or even clogged fuel filter. Since none of this existed until I "tuned" up the truck, I figured it was something I did - plug or plug wire. If that was not the culprit, then I would look to move coils and injectors around and see if anything changes. I didn't want to rush out to buy a $100 coil or injector just to find out that I didn't need to spend the money.

The internet also showed me how to access the #2 plug from the top. Remove the entire air cleaner assembly and mass airflow sensor, unbolt the windshield washer reservoir (which is the bottom of the air cleaner pan too). Unbolt the retaining strap next to coil#2 on the engine. Now you can get your hand on the plug boot and spark plug from above without removing the front tire.

Even with this information in hand, it is still a very tight squeeze for your hand between the engine and the shock tower. It still took a long time to get a spark plug socket and wrench on the plug and get it out. I inspected the new plug. I thought I might have damaged it installing it. It looked fine. I checked the gap. Holy Mackerel!!! Was it way out of spec !!!!! The gap is suppose to .040. When I put my gap gauge on it, there had to be at least another .015-.020 gap beyond that. It was huge!!! So needless to say, I corrected the gap. I re-installed the spark plug (again not a quick or easy thing to do) and the plug wire, then buttoned up the rest of the truck.

I did a quick test drive last night near the house. No codes under hard acceleration. Engine also seems to run smoother too. I went to the gym this morning on the expressway, did the hard acceleration thing again, still no error codes. I'm hoping I might be beyond this. I will keep the OBDII reader plugged in for another day or two to be sure though.

Finally got the rest of my carpet installed and started moving stuff back into the house. I CAN SEE MY SUNBIRD AGAIN!!!! GTO has to make an appearance at the wifes class reunion tomorrow. Class of 66....

Drove the Phoenix last night with a 6 month expired inspection. I ain't scurred.

Put a rear window defogger in the lemans today.Need the switch though,winter project to wire it and cut the dash for the switch when/if i get one.

Somehow I lost one of my chrome tips recently. Installed two new ones today. I went up from the stock size 3.75. It fills the opening better. Also went with a double wall style this time.

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Looks good Joe!

Drove the Phoenix last night with a 6 month expired inspection. I ain't scurred.

...and a huge hole in the steering column! When do we get to see a picture of the screwdriver key?

All of my gals are ready to rock! Finished doing oil changes on all of em. Phoenix also passed re-inspection.

Phoenix got the most treatment today. Inspection, oil change, all grease fitting lubed, tires properly aired and a quick rinse and a full tank of seafoamed gas!

Nice trailer. You got more pictures of it.

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So this is what you end up with when you combine a Falcon Futura with the Millennium Falcon???

I had today off, so I spent all day getting Black Betty ready for a show tomorrow.

I used this stuff...

... and got these results...

Sweet... Had the GTO out N blew the waterpump or hose backing into the driveway. Complete puke of the cooling system. Washed it all down, put er away. No time to even mess with it. There are 0 options out there for putting a big clutch back in the Sunbird.....I'm sooooo screwed.